UN Terrified friends burned to death in Tesla as electronic doors wouldn't open after crash - Elon Musk presents the Indian slow cooker

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Terrified friends burned to death in Tesla as electronic doors wouldn't open after crash​

The only survivor of the October 24 fire was a woman in her 20s who was able to get to safety after a quick thinking passer-by smashed a window of the burning Model Y car to free her​

The car burst into flames after hitting a barrier, four of the five passengers were unable to get out as fire engulfed the car (


By
Joe SmithNews Reporter

• 08:48, 12 Nov 2024

Four friends died in a horrific car fire after they were unable to escape from a burning Tesla when a crash disabled its electronic doors.
The only survivor of the October 24 fire was a woman in her 20s who was able to get to safety after a passer-by smashed a window of the burning Model Y car.

Four other friends, identified as 25-year-old Neelraj Gohil, his sister Ketaba Gohil, 29, Jay Sisodiya and Digvijay Patel all lost their lives in the incident.
Rick Harper, a Canada Post employee, heroically used a metal pole to smash the car window, freeing the woman. In an interview with the Toronto Star he told reporters she “couldn’t open the doors” from inside of the crashed Tesla.


One woman was saved when a passer-by smashed the window (
Image:

CTV)
“I would assume the young lady would have tried to open the door from the inside, because she was pretty desperate to get out,” Harper said. “I don't know if that was the battery or what. But she couldn't get out.”
He described how the woman, the only survivor of the wreck, scrambled out of the car head-first after he smashed the window. Harper said he did not know anyone else was in the car at the time, because the smoke was so thick.

He has no way to know if they too were trying to escape the burning car using the unresponsive doors in their final moments. Investigators are still working to determine the cause of the crash, which happened after the Tesla hit a guardrail at speed on Toronto’s Lakeshore Boulevard East.
In the US there are nine investigations involving the Tesla Model Y, ranging from “unexpected brake activation” to “sudden unintended acceleration,” according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Tesla boasts its vehicles gave a “safety-first design” and says its vehicles are “the safest in the world”. There is a manual override in Tesla cars but the feature is not widely publicized, experts say.
In the event of a crash passengers are directed to pull away a palen in the door and tug at a cable underneath to open the doors, but safety watchdogs have said dazed or panicked crash victims may not be able to search for the feature after a car crash.

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[FootballBuff]

An emergency exit so obtuse you can't figure it out in 5 seconds is NOT a valid emergency exit and something only a turbo-autist like Elon and his engineers could possibly think was a good idea.

Elon and other autistic modern engineers utterly reject the mantra that should be tattooed onto the backs of their eyelids, and that is "KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid"

This is what happens when you aschew traditional thinking just for the sake of it. There is absolutely no reason you couldnt design a sleak, semi hidden manual door release thats also easily accessible while having the option to electrically open your door.

Tesla's are like bug zappers for NPC's and idiots if you drive a tesla I automatically assume youre a useless waste of space who's existence and survival would not be possible without the current political and socio-economic status of America as a result of Natos domination of geopolitics.

These are the people Calvinists are talking about when they claim only certain people have souls and thus are getting into heaven.

Tesla owners are the only fuel for my conspiratorial belief that the government is cloning walking and talking souless flesh puppets to populate the country and vote for the status quo. The truth is, there IS NO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION its just the government creating Tesla owners to alternate the party they vote for every election by feeding them MKULTRA propaganda 24/7 in order to maintain the status quo.

 

[TowinKarz]

Tesla's are like bug zappers for NPC's

I am so stealing that because I could never explain it any better.....

 

[mister fireworks]

Tesla's are like bug zappers for NPC's and idiots if you drive a tesla I automatically assume youre a useless waste of space who's existence and survival would not be possible without the current political and socio-economic status of America as a result of Natos domination of geopolitics.

yeah pretty much. At least prius drivers are just cheap/deluded about how their personal carbon footprint being (dubiously) reduced by driving an ev. The Tesla driver is both an ostentatious try-hard dork and a bug brained retard.

I first saw the cybertruck in person 6 months ago parked outside of my building and was shocked at how cheap and bad it looked. It was still pretty rare to see them on the streets at that point. Two young women in their twenties walked by and literally pointed and laughed at it.

 

[AnOminous]

I first saw the cybertruck in person 6 months ago parked outside of my building and was shocked at how cheap and bad it looked. It was still pretty rare to see them on the streets at that point. Two young women in their twenties walked by and literally pointed and laughed at it.

It looks gay as fuck and even a cheap-ass 4 cylinder pickup would be better. What is the intended use for this piece of shit?

 

[mister fireworks]

It looks gay as fuck and even a cheap-ass 4 cylinder pickup would be better. What is the intended use for this piece of shit?

Single men, mostly immigrants, who are engineers/work in tech and would spend money on literally anything if they thought it would make people think they are cool.

 

[AnOminous]

Single men, mostly immigrants, who are engineers/work in tech and would spend money on literally anything if they thought it would make people think they are cool.

But it doesn't look cool. It looks laughably retarded and ugly.

 

[Male Idiot]

In their native habitat of Bharat, the pajeet is always hunted by the mighty train.
But when the pajeet performs its migration and ginds itself in a new ecosystem, it comes into contact with new predators that it is equally unequipped to handle, like the fiery and wild Tesla.

 

[Amber the Hedgehog]

But it doesn't look cool. It looks laughably retarded and ugly.

It's expensive and fasionable in some circles. What more do you need?

 

[The-Mad-Asshatter]

But it doesn't look cool. It looks laughably retarded and ugly.

It looks to me like a low poly car out of the PlayStation 1 days. Or what a turbo-autist like ol'Musky Musk thinks is 'futuristic.'

 

[Beautiful Border]

But it doesn't look cool. It looks laughably retarded and ugly.

In the same way the PT Cruisier tried to appeal to baby boomers' nostalgia in the 2000s with its faux-pontoon styling, the Cybertruck is trying to appeal to aging Gen X by trying to imitate the futurism of their youth with a "cargo cult" understanding of what made the cars of that era cool.

It's what happens when an unsophisticated mind tries to copy the designs of Giorgetto Giugiaro without any of his subtlety or nuance. The 80s were cool, and cars in the 80s were boxy, so we'll make the car look like it was designed on a Vectrex! It's extremely obvious what the design philosophy was here, and it's embarrassing.

 

[mister fireworks]

But it doesn't look cool. It looks laughably retarded and ugly.

Partially I think its because people had to buy a spot on the waiting list. Yes, it looks extremely ugly and gay even in the promotional materials, but it looks much worse in person. The kind of person who would line up to give Elon Musk money for the privilege of getting the first production units of any car, let alone a strange looking electric "truck" has never been cool and has no sense or taste. This is the kind of person who thinks its cool.

It was funny to go on facebook marketplace right after the truck was released. There were people selling their place in line for $10k or whatever it cost them certainly because they saw how incredibly gay the truck looked and didn't want to be laughed at by the general public while driving it around. There were also people attempting to sell the truck at well above sticker price.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

No but that's genuinely horrifying.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Bring it up and I'll bet they just tell you to "read the manual"

Yes, everyone should, but that ignores the fact that 99.9% don't and thanks to litigiousness? What used to be 10 pages long is now over 300 to cover such things as "Do not drink the contents of the battery"

While tidying up the basement last year? I found the original owners manual to my Dad's old Cessna 172. This was an AIRPLANE. And it was.... about 20 pages. A modern car manual is so informative? It's a hindrance.

I tried to find in my car manual what size windshield wipers it needed… talk about a lost cause. Ended up depending on the Autozone employees being able to look it up in their computer.

 

[Eydallur]

One thing that doesn't make much sense to me is why Tesla and most other EVs use NMC batteries and not iron phospate. You get a little less energy density but the trade off is dramatically increased service life and a battery that is non-flammable.

It should be a fucking no brainer for vehicles where you have regular deep charge cycles and safety is a critical design goal.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

One thing that doesn't make much sense to me is why Tesla and most other EVs use NMC batteries and not iron phospate. You get a little less energy density but the trade off is dramatically increased service life and a battery that is non-flammable.

It should be a fucking no brainer for vehicles where you have regular deep charge cycles and safety is a critical design goal.

Probably the lower energy density - those battery packs are heavy as shit as it is.

 

[kcbbq]

How do they know they were terrified? They don't even know if they were trying to get out and the article says as much.

 

[AnOminous]

In the same way the PT Cruisier tried to appeal to baby boomers' nostalgia in the 2000s with its faux-pontoon styling, the Cybertruck is trying to appeal to aging Gen X by trying to imitate the futurism of their youth with a "cargo cult" understanding of what made the cars of that era cool.

Well, it's failing, because I'm that demographic and I think it looks like a piece of shit and worse, utterly useless for any practical purpose.

How do they know they were terrified? They don't even know if they were trying to get out and the article says as much.

Well, I suppose they could have been partying and in a celebratory mood as their flesh melted from their bones and decided nah, fuck it we'll just stay in here.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

I'm not on the tesla hate bandwagon like everyone else but I do not understand their obsession of going out of their way to eliminate everything manual to the point where it obviously compromises safety for no reason. Its probably a lot harder to engineer a door that can't be used manually.

Yep

The Man machine interface in any Tesla besides the Gen 1 Model S is absolutely shit

 

[blue gopher snakes]

I almost got t-boned on the school dropoff this morning by a Tesla that blew a red light. The kind of person that would endanger kids on their way to school is someone I am willing to allow to burn to death in their car.

 

[No. 7 cat]

door release model Y

Others have likely posted this, but if the power failed, getting the door open is hard, and surely well nigh impossible in an emergency. If there still was power, the switch below opens the door, meaning these curries were irredeemably simple.